Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the passage out of Cornwall. Thence we had a view of Mount Edgcumbe, a brave house, and well situ- ate, belonging to Mr. Edgcumbe, a gentleman of great estate. On the hill which you ascend, after you are come over the passage to go to Plymouth, grows Hryn- gium vulgare {.E. campestre, Linn.) in great plenty, which I do not remember to have seen any where else in Eng- land. There grows also Hrythrodanum (Rubia peregrina, Linn.,] as upon almost all the rocks on the sea-coast hereabout. Here we had a view of the little island in the mouth of the river, called Portsea Island (as I re- member), in which is a good fort. There are besides, three other castles near the entrance of the haven or key of Plymouth, on the west side of the town. Plymouth is a great and rich town, inferior in trade, riches, and bigness, to none in the west, except Bristol; yet there are no fair and uniform streets in it; here are two churches, one half built. This town makes a very fair show at a distance, as you go to Ouston, a good large town on the harbour, a mile to the east. From Plymouth we travelled on through Modberry, a httle market-town, and so on to Morley. Near Modberry we passed a fair house belonging to Sir 'Thomas Hales. Tuesday, July the 8th, we pursued our journey to 'Totness, through Dartmouth, a large and well built town, and hath a commodious harbour ; at the mouth of it two castles, one called Kingsward Castle, from a little town on the other side of the water called Kingsward, the other St. Patrick’s castle ; there is besides another in the town. This town hath the river on one side, and on the rest it is compassed with steep, high hills. Many fish are taken in these parts. Pilchards we saw. ‘Totness is a large, clean town, standing on the side of an hill; there is an old castle at the upper end of it, upon an ar- tificial mount ; and there are some rows of houses at the market-place, like those at Chester, with fair shambles. The town is governed by a mayor and fourteen aldermen, and is a borough. We went to Mr. Champerson’s wood